Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the words rebounded back to my ears and I heard their sound and their meaning , and the pain came back at that moment , too , and it all made sense , the way a policeman 's knock on the door must make sense when you 've committed a crime . |
| 2 | I nodded , and she closed her eyes and I saw her shoulders slump a little . |
| 3 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 4 | tuned it in to the four channels and I said what about video |
| 5 | We sat round the fire with our leftovers and I answered their questions about the day 's events . |
| 6 | I heard the ambulance and the police cars and I saw them putting the man into the ambulance and trying to resuscitate him and driving away . |
| 7 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 8 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 9 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 10 | They snapped like burned-through twigs and I threw them away . |
| 11 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 12 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ She had been depressed during the last 18 months but I thought she was getting better . |
| 14 | He was a bit suspicious I must admit when I bought him those Janet Reger nighties but I knew he 'd never get the chance to wear them . |
| 15 | I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink . |
| 16 | An orange circle of light , the beam from his torch , darted round the tent walls , there was the jingle of keys and I felt them cold in my hand . |
| 17 | come up mum 's with the , and he snatched my handbag and he took the keys , he said that copper has got no rights to tell him to hand over them keys to me , I said what and he snatched them out of my handbag and I 've got no rights to my own house keys and I said what rights have I got to do , down his flat and collect half of my stuff back then ? |
| 18 | He seemed to know a lot about female mysteries and I wanted him to explain . |
| 19 | He asked me if I knew anything about ley lines and I confessed my ignorance . |
| 20 | In 1975 , my engineers and I realised we should enter a new area of application — robots for arc welding . |
| 21 | My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right . |
| 22 | It does n't have pockets but I liked it because of the red buttons . ’ |
| 23 | He was alone for just a few minutes and I made my offer . |
| 24 | We were in a supermarket , I do n't know where it was but somewhere in the states and I told you I think they 're boast were sixty something varieties of peanut butter . |
| 25 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 26 | The first few times I lit the stove , up popped yellow flames and I turned it off . |
| 27 | I have n't had a jelly for ages and I got one from Sainsbury 's . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd pet ( the mice ) ‘ em , and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little and then they were dead — because they were so little ’ |
| 29 | The lock sticks and I heard him turning his key . |
| 30 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |